Christian Nationalist Task Force Says Stopping Child Abuse and Fraud Is Anti-Christian Bias
The US Federal Government Task Force To Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias says…
Practicing fraud and abusing children are Christian values
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Christian nationalism is going into hyperdrive.
It's beyond overdrive, the pace at which Christian nationalism is being slammed down the throats of Americans as we are approaching May 17th, which is the day on which there will be, a national Christian prayer rally, to declare that the United States is one nation under God, to declare that the United States is no longer a secular democracy, but is a Christian theocracy.
This has no precedent in the law, in the Constitution, but Donald Trump is planning to have a government and corporate funded ceremony, a ritual, a Christian ritual, in which he declares that the United States is dedicated to the Christian God.
That's happening in less than 3 weeks, on the 250th anniversary of the independence of the United States from a Christian Nationalist British Empire.
The founding fathers, when they declared independence, and then when they wrote the Constitution, were acting against Christian Nationalism.
Now, Donald Trump is rewriting history, and of course, he's not doing it on his own. American corporations are pitching in. They're helping to pay for this religious ceremony. They're paying between 1 and $10 million each.
You know, it was my plan to just talk about that this week to talk about the different corporations that are doing that, but I can't do that because there's other news going on.
Let me just highlight for right now, ExxonMobil is paying millions of dollars to Donald Trump to support this Christian nationalist takeover of the United States and end to secular democracy. No more democracy, no more constitution, no more 1st amendment for you Americans, because ExxonMobil doesn't want to have it that way. ExxonMobil finds democracy to be inconvenient, and attacking democracy in the name of Jesus, well, there's a certain segment of the population that just loves that.
It's the same segment of the population that loves their John Deere riding lawnmowers, which burn gasoline from ExxonMobil. John Deere is also giving a heck of a lot of money to make this May 17th ceremony ending American democracy in Washington, DC, and across the nation, they're going to pray, have an official government prayer.
Look, maybe you're a Christian. I want you to think about this. What does it say about your religion if you need to have the U.S. Federal government be in control of that? Do you think it really has anything to do with your Jesus or your God?
I mean, your God is supposed to be omnipotent, all powerful, and also universal everywhere across the cosmos. Why would this God be aligned with one particular nation in North America when the entire Bible is written in Western Asia 2000 years ago?
I mean, it doesn't add up, except that, boy, Christianity is popular, and Christianity is based on the idea of faith, which means, hey, you don't ask these pesky questions, you just believe real hard, and you just you just feel the feelings of faith, and you don't think about it too hard.
So, John Deere, burning fossil fuels in their internal combustion engines, ExxonMobil, They don't want you to focus on things like climate change because that's inconvenient to their business models. So they're bribing Donald Trump through this Christian nationalist prayer rally on May 17th, saying that they're helping to pay for this ceremony, which is just a whole bunch of people getting together to pray.
It doesn't cost any money to pray. Do you see how that works? It's corruption. It's bribery, plain and simple.
That's the morality of Christian nationalism.
Thank you, ExxonMobil. Thank you, John Deere, for contributing to the decline of American morality and the destruction of law and order under this new Christian nationalist fascism.
I want to talk about something even more ridiculous because a report came out today. “Report” is kind of a very formal word for what this document is. It is 200 plus pages long, but it's really just a kind of diatribe of every Christian nationalist grievance that's been stored up over the last 10 to 15 years.
It's been written by a federal government organization, which is called the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias. Yeah, think about that. That is a US government agency now, the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias
The whole idea is that the federal government is just suffused with anti-Christian bias. I want you to take a look at this. The 3 branches of the U.S. Federal government. You know something? There has never been a United States president that is not a Christian, not a single one in 250 years. Where's the anti-Christian bias in that?
There has not been a publicly non-religious member of the United States Supreme Court ever. Almost all of them have been Christian. A few of them have been Jewish. It’s majority Christian. It's controlled by Christian Nationalists right now. Where's the anti-Christian bias in that?
And Congress? Hey, you know, Congress is like 87% Christian right now. 60% of American population in general is Christian. You've got a 27% gap there.
Christians are overwhelmingly overrepresented in the United States Congress, and the United States Congress is led, both houses, the House and Senate, every damned morning, by a Christian chaplain. They cannot open and do business until the Christian chaplain gets up there to do a Christian prayer. Do you think there has ever been a chaplain in either house of the United States Congress who has not been a Christian? No, there has not been a single one. Where is the anti-Christian bias?
There is an office of Christian Nationalist religious influence in the White House. They have a physical office run by the prophetic Christian preacher Paula White. Does any other religion have a White House office in the U.S. Federal government? No.
Pete Hegseth has declared that we are now at war with Iran in the name of Jesus. Has there ever been a non-Christian god that we've gone to war for? No. No, we only go to war for Christianity.
Why do we have religious chaplains in the military instead of people who have actual, proper psychological training to help people? Why do we have religious chaplains paid for by the U.S. Government, almost all of whom are Christian? How is that anti-Christian bias?
You know the answer.
There is no anti-Christian bias in the U.S. Federal government, but part of Christian religion is the article of faith that Christians are terribly persecuted by somebody or other. I mean, never mind that Christianity has been aligned with the powerful and the violent and the oppressive for almost its entire existence. It was spread at the point of a sword by the Roman Empire, the Christian Roman Empire, and then by Christian kings, and then Christian colonialism. Christianity is a cult of power, of political power.
You can look at the Book of Revelation, which is where Jesus ends up. I know a lot of Christians like to just think about the gospels, and when I say gospels, I mean mostly the sermon on the Mount, because he said a lot of stuff that sounded pretty nice, but if you look at the Bible where Jesus ended up, the book of Revelation is, quote, the testimony of Jesus, and in that book he describes his plans to establish a one world earthly political government through global genocide and torture.
Christian Nationalists believe that until that happens until they control everything, until they get to do everything that they want, and no other religion is allowed, and people are mandated to practice Christianity, that they are somehow oppressed. That's what this report from the task force to eradicate anti-Christian bias is really all about. I want to share with you just a couple of examples of that.
I have found a couple of things that I find, absolutely fascinating, and they really reveal what Christian religious values are these days. One has to do with education, a university that calls itself Grand Canyon University, although it is not on the Grand Canyon, folks, it's down in Phoenix, Arizona, which is down in the flat desert plains, where it just gets hot, it's not on the Grand Canyon. Anyway, it's a Christian university in Phoenix, Arizona. They were defrauding, their students, graduate students at Grand Canyon University were forced to pay over $10,000 more than the advertised amounts for their tuition and other fees.
Grand Canyon University lied to those students using hidden fees for so-called continuation courses that were not properly disclosed to people before they signed up for their degrees. So here you've got Grand Canyon University, a Christian University practicing fraud. Well, what if it had been a public university practicing fraud? That would have been punished too, right? I mean, any university that is charging its students over $10,000 more than it said that it would. I think we can all agree that any university public or private, religious or non-religious needs to be held to account for that kind of really creepy fraud.
It's an abuse. It's immoral, right?
But no, the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias says that when Grand Canyon University was held accountable by the Department of Education and forced to pay a $37.7 million fine for defrauding its own students, that that was an example of anti-Christian bias and persecution of Christians.
So essentially what the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias says is that when you have an organization like a university that defrauds its students, if it's Christian, it should be allowed to do that, and that holding that Christian university accountable to the laws of the United States of America, the regulation of higher education, if you ask Christian universities to follow the law like everybody else, you are persecuting them because of their religion, and that is anti-Christian bias in the federal government.
Basically, what they're saying is that fraud is a Christian value, that exploiting students, that lying to them, deceiving them, stealing their money. These are religious practices, unique to Christianity, and therefore, a Christian university has the right to engage in fraud. Essentially, whatever crime, you want to engage in, if you say it's in the name of Christianity, you can do it. Anything goes, along those lines.
Another part of the report, this is on page 130, the U.S. federal government Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias declared that homeschoolers, homeschooling families, were being subjected to religious persecution, to persecution of their religion, of their Christianity. This was an example of anti-Christian bias in the U.S. Federal government against these Christian homeschooling families. The report talks about harassment of them by the U.S. Federal government.
Do you know what that harassment was? That harassment was investigation of parents for abusing their children.
This is a really difficult thing. There is a high prevalence of abuse among homeschooling families. It's not a nice thing, but the fact is that abusive parents often homeschool their children, because they don't want anyone in the public schools, to see the bruises, or to see the behaviors that come about when their children are abused. They want to cover it up.
They don't want to let their kids out of the house, going and telling a teacher or a principal or a guidance counselor, what mommy or daddy is doing to them back at home. So, you have a higher than normal prevalence of abuse among homeschoolers
When I'm talking about this, there is a new research article that's coming out in June, in the Journal of Child Abuse and Neglect.
Isn't it terrible that we have to have a journal to study this? We do.
This is going to be in the June edition of the Journal of Child Abuse and Neglect. They found that 23% of adults that they surveyed, who had been as children, homeschool students described abuse and neglect from their parents. That's nearly one out of every 4 homeschooled children. These are kids.
Now, maybe the Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias is going to say, “Well, those are Christian kids, and the parents have the right parents' rights to, you know, educate them according to their religion. And if their religion includes hitting them, beating them, to beat the devil out of them, well, golly, that just has to be the case.”
Here in the United States, we do have laws against abuse of different kinds, against children, because children don't ask to be born, and children don't get to choose their families. So we have laws that we enforce, that say that you can't abuse your kids.
But now the task force to eradicate anti-Christian bias is saying that you can't apply those rules to Christian families, that if you have Christian families, who hit, who terrorize, who sexually abuse their own children, they have the right to do that in the name of Jesus, in the name of Christianity, and that's freedom of religion.
This 200 page report is full of examples like this. Essentially, what it's saying, this U.S. Federal government Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias, is that if you're Christian and you commit a crime, you cannot be held accountable to it. The law only applies to non-Christians, and that anything less than that, letting anyone who's Christian do whatever the hell they want, despite what the law is, and no matter who they hurt, who they defraud, who they damage, who they even possibly kill. Anything less than that, they say, is anti-Christian bias in the U.S. Federal government.
The poor, poor, persecuted Christians who don't get to hit kids, who don't get to practice fraud. This is what they want us to believe is the real problem.
You know, the very existence of the task force to eradicate anti-Christian bias lets you know what's really going on, because there is no task force in the U.S. Federal government to eradicate anti-Jewish bias.
There is no task force to eradicate anti-Hindu bias. There certainly is no task force to eradicate, bias against non-Christian Americans, and you know why that is.
It's because Christian voters elected Donald Trump and Christian organizations were campaigning for him in violation of the law, having tax exempt status, unlike ordinary political operations which have to pay taxes, churches don't.
You see how that gets to be an organizational advantage?
They got Donald Trump back into the White House, and now they're getting their payback.
So, we have the entire U.S. Federal government being dedicated to eradicating any equal representation for people in the United States of America.
This is a government by Christianity, for Christianity, of Christianity, and anybody else, if you want representation from this government, you're out of luck.
We can all see how well this is working out. Gasoline is at record highs, over $125 per barrel of oil because we have gone to war in the name of Christianity.
We have the Department of Homeland Security putting out Bible verses, even as it sends out ice goons with their face masks to kick people's doors down and drag people, kids, separating them from their parents, because they're not the right kind of people, because they're not white, because they don't speak English.
This is what Christianity is now.
You can against that if you're a liberal Christian and say, well, that's not real Christianity, but you know something, This is what the majority of Christian voters put into office. I say Christianity is what Christianity actually does, not what it says it believes, not its articles of faith, but when it comes down to brass tax, when you give Christians control over the government, it's a complete disaster.
It's inhumane, it's cruel, and it destroys our freedom.
So what do we do about this Christian takeover of the United States of America about to destroy our democracy on May 17th?
Don't call your member of Congress, because the chances are they're not going to do a damn thing about it because they don't want to offend anybody, you know?
I mean, yes, Christians in control of our country, maybe taking away people's rights.
They may be hauling people off to concentration camps where people are tortured and deprived of basic food and medicine and legal rights and everything like that.
Yeah, they may be starting wars that destroy the economy. Yeah, all this is done in the name of Christianity. We wouldn't want to say anything like that, you know, that like, oh, hey, you know, maybe we shouldn't have Christians in control of the government, because look what they're doing, because they wouldn't want to offend Christians, because above all else, you must not cause offense.
You must not have any anti-Christian bias, no matter how much the Christian fascists are wrecking the United States of America on its 250th birthday. Yeah, members of Congress are not going to stand up for non-Christian Americans and for Christians who believe in the decency of democracy and that everybody should be equal.
No, they're not standing up for that. You’ve got to stand up for it.
On May 17th, our democracy is going to be destroyed and placed with the Christian Nationalist theocracy, but on May 1st, it is a national strike, and that is tomorrow.
That means no work. Screw work. Screw school. If you're a student, don't go to school, and don't go out shopping.
All of these businesses, like Exxon Mobile, like Deloitte, like John Deere, they want you to continue to participate in their corporate fascist economy. They want your dollars, and they think you don't have a choice.
And tomorrow is a day when you can demonstrate. All you billionaires who are in control of these corporations, you have a lot of power, but we have power too. We have power in numbers.
There are events, there are protests out in the street across America tomorrow. Get out there and get your voice heard. Scream at the top of your lungs.
You are not going to let American democracy die.
Do it now, because you may not have too much longer, before that freedom is taken away too.